General video · Level B2 - Part 2

Hungry Venus flytraps

The Venus flytrap... Like the Sundew, it makes itself very attractive, oozing nectar across the brim of each leaf.

Level: B2 · 18 sentences

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1. The Venus flytrap...
2. Like the Sundew, it makes itself very attractive, oozing nectar across the brim of each leaf.
3. But any visiting insect had better watch out for these six tiny hairs.
4. This fly has to tread carefully
5. If it strikes one hair...
6. it can carry on feeding
7. but a timer has been set.
8. A second strike in less than 20 seconds and the fly is doomed
9. ...
10. An electrical impulse is triggered and the leaf snaps shut in just a fraction of a second
11. The tips locked together like prison bars
12. If the fly is very big or very small, it may just manage to escape.
13. But most are trapped...
14. and die.
15. ...
16. Ten days later the trap reopens.
17. All that remains is a husk.
18. The plant has finished its meal and resets itself for its next victim.